[mythtv-users] Re: Feature request: backwards compatability

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Fri May 20 05:39:53 UTC 2005


On Thursday 19 May 2005 12:10, cwatson at linkline.com wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> > Find a disc on the cover of "Linux Media Magazine" with MythTV
> > binaries on it running a slightly older knoppmyth 0.17  Decide to see
> > if knoppmyth is really all it's cracked up to be, only to find out
> > that your backend isn't going to play nice with it.  Stomp on the
> > disc, curse knoppmyth, and smile 18 hours later when your Gentoo
> > install finishes and 0.18 works as expected.
>
> Curse KnoppMyth?!  Perhaps this is why my body ached and I couldn't sleep
> last night.  The MythTV versioning (non) issue is not a KnoppMyth issue.
> Any one capable of reading should be about to figure this out.  In the 18
> hours it took you to install Gentoo and MythTV, I could have installed
> KnoppMyth on 18 PCs.  This includes downloading 0.18, producing a debs on
> one to be installed on others (with much time remaining to watch TV).

Heh. 18 hours...

> > ;)
> >
> > Cool
>
> Yes, KnoppMyth is cool.  If you want to use Gentoo, that is your option.  I
> however would appreciate it if you didn't curse my efforts to make the
> Linux/MythTV install easy for those that have better things to do with
> thier time.

better_things_to_do_with_their_time++

:-)

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